Damian's plan

After Damian and Belserion had their fair share of jokes and discussion both of them decided that they should head back as this has already become too late and the others might be irritated by their absence for so long.

Damian put his mask back and decided to go back to his camp and explain the situation to his subordinates while Belserion go back to his people.

Damian cancelled the silencing and barrier rune and flew towards his camp.

Once he got there he defended down and noticed Rung with a slightly sad aura.

Soon one of the soldiers noticed him and immediately told the other soldiers who immediately focused on him along with the higher ups in the camp and all the soldiers greeted him.

Damian just raised his hand to stop them and said, "What happened, did Rung lost another bet or what?" and immediately Rung's body flinched while the soldiers were just trying to hold back their laughter not wanting to irritate the already frustrated general who not so long ago lost half of the money that he brought to the soldiers.

Seeing their reactions Damian just stared at Rung for a while making the general uncomfortable by his gaze. Rung let him be for a while but Damian didn't stop and continued to stare back at him.

*Jiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii*

Rung looked at him but soon averted his eyes.

*Jiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii*

Rung once again looked at him but and tried to match his gaze but still averted his eyes.

*Jiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii*

Probably having enough of him Rung's body began shaking. He looked at him with a glare and was about to say something but Damian just looked away and kept a hand on his mouth and tried to control his laugh.

*Pfft~*

Seeing their mage head like that the soldiers who have been holding back their laughter found it difficult to do the same but still somehow managed to do it and turned their heads away from Rung.

Rung who saw that wanted to say something but Damian looked back at him making him uncomfortable once again.

Seeing that this was going nowhere Rung was decided to argue with him but didn't got a chance to do so as Damian just broke out laughing seeing which the other soldiers started laughing as well making Rung shake in embarrasment.

"SHUT IT YOU BASTARDS!!!!!" but that didn't help him and the others started laughing louder.

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After Damian and the others stopped laughing and Damian somehow calmed the raging general he gathered all the higher ups and discussed about the people and dragons who came from Dragonof.

Once he was done with the explaination their was silence among the group and they just exchanged glances with eachother and discussed with each other.

After they all were done with the major politics and information transfer back to the Adroelia all the higher-ups praised Damian for this achievement, afterall it was his idea from begin with and he worked for this all on his own as well but Damian himself remained silent and to the others it looked like he was still a bit uncertain or sad about this.

Rung looked at his friend with a confused expression on his face and asked, "What's the matter Ian? Is something wrong?"

Damian looked at all of them and said, ".....I think I should go on ahead on my own and check whether they are really willing to form an alliance or if this is all just a trap to make us drop down our guard. You all should be knowing that in times of war like this schemes are not really uncommon and there might be a chance that they are trying to set us up."

Hearing that all of them widened their eyes and immediately all of them got serious and started thinking.

Damian who said all that looked at each of them and then thought, 'Like hell this is a scheme they even sent Belserion to talk this out they are truly willing to go on with the alliance, but still I want to meet with Irene sooner so some doubt must be placed here first.'

One of them then said, "But it is Dragonof we are talking about they would not do something which will hurt their pride and scheming like this will literally hurt their pride. A kingdom as great as Dragonof using such tactics against a single small kingdom like Adroelia. I can't think that their queen will allow something like this. They are even fighting the army of opposing dragons head-on rather than using schemes."

Damian nodded his head and said, "True, but we are not even sure that they are from Dragonof to begin with, You all must have heard about it as well but the their is a Dragonof opposing alliance."

Hearing that all of them nodded and said, "Yeah, those group of kingdoms grouping up and trying to take down Dragonof, i have heard of them. Recently they have been quite active."

Damian nodded his head as well and said, "Yeah, I have even heard that they have got some Dragons on their side as well. So it is highly likely that they have sent someone dressed as per from Dragonof after hearing about the alliance from one of their spies and are trying to cause a rift between the two kingdoms so as to break the alliance. They must not be wanting for this alliance because this will make their enemy even stronger so they are trying to stop this while making our kingdom weak as well by attacking our army in surprise."

All of them got silent and started thinking about what Damian said. The possibility of what Damian said was relatively high as they have not yet seen any thing which can prove that they are from Dragonof, and even if they did show something like that the possibility of it being forged is there as well.

Not knowing what to do about it Rung looked at Damian and asked, "Then what do you say we should do because if what you just said came out true, not only us but the entire Adroelia will be wiped out because most of the soldiers and mages are here with us."

Damian looked at Rung and said, "It might be a little risky but is worth a try, how about only me and minister Clive go with them ahead of you all while you and the others bring the army towards Dragonof. If they are actually from Dragonof then their will be no problem at all, but if they are not then I am confident enough to get out of there with minister Clive without a scratch."

Hearing that all of them got surprised by his plan and looked towards Clive who started thinking about what he just heard and started considering the consequences. Meanwhile a debate among the people started about the matter, they cannot let the life of two of the most important people of the kingdom get in danger even more one of them is Damian who have improved the current kingdom a lot.

Seeing that things were reaching no where, Rung clapped his hands immediately silencing and getting the attention of the others.

He looked at Damian with narrowed eyes and asked, "Are you sure that you want to do this and is actually capable of getting out of the trouble without a scratch?"

Damian just smirked and said, "Heh, I might even kill all of them further decreasing the load on Adroelia."

Rung nodded and looked towards Clive and asked, "And you Mr. Clive, are you willing to take this risk?"

Clive who was a bearded old and thin man gulped his saliva and said, "I really don't want to do this but the life of people of Adroelia would be at stake if the situation turns to an unfortunate path. So I will place my trust on Ian-sama."

Rung nodded and said, "No more discussions here, from the authority of the general of the army of Kingdom of Adroelia I approve of this. Do any of you have to oppose." and glared back at all of them.

Seeing their general getting serious all of them just nodded and decided to believe in him. Since the three higher most people in the group have already accepted it their words now would hardly make a difference.

Seeing that none of them were going to speak now Rung nodded and said, "Then it's settled." Damian just smiled and nodded his head.